Incidentally, for some further thoughts on the use of the term 'Anglo-Saxon' etc in light of recent arguments, and with which I find much to agree, see https://boaringmedievalist.com/2019/09/14/boaring-medievalist/ …
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen
This idea that we are surrendering a term as if it used to be neutral ignores what
@ISASaxonists and@erik_kaars have pointed out: it has always been racist including the UK.1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes -
I've definitely seen this being asserted, but I'm not sure I agree :) Albeit as a non-member, the society name-change makes a deal of sense to me, particularly given apparent US usage (& cf Levi above re: this), as do many of the other points made, but on this... Hmm.
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Please do not think I’m being rude, but the sources are there, this is well-documented.
@erik_kaars has pointed out several. I found also references by British Israelites referring to themselves as Anglo-Saxons destined to rule the world, in the late 19thc literature.2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes -
Replying to @AdmiralHip @caitlinrgreen and
And no one is saying we have to stop citing works that say Anglo-Saxon either. But if it makes the field more inclusive to move past harmful terminology then defending its usage and denying its harmful past is not useful.
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I would hope no one is saying to stop citing works that say Anglo-Saxon. That would be bad scholarship. Using it and referring to previous work as such makes sense, but we can change our usage in our work.
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Some people seem to think that it’s what we’re saying, and I don’t know where they got that idea from.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @ISASaxonists and
Did we decide to ignore the entirety of British violent colonialism to pretend that this terminology does not have a long racist, violent past? This kind of thinking is described in Fatima El-Tayeb’s and Gloria Wekker’s book. This post-1945 idea that Europe is not connected to 1/
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @AdmiralHip and
To its violent racist colonies and exported this terminology for violent racist empire globally is another way of ignoring Europe and here the UK’s long, global violent empire. The UK & its empire is not separate. This feels like an example of the White Innocence that Wekker 2/
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @AdmiralHip and
And El-Tayeb discusses that imagines that Europe has no history of empire where such terms were used for global violent domination. It’s a pre-1945 convenient historical amnesia that allows Europeans to imagine they are innocent. And thus terminology is innocent.
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And also, history of the English language point, the term has been a problem for a long time in multiple global English empire locations. The term is also used by contemporary UK pro-Brexiters to justify xenophobia and racism and some pure white UK nonsense. If you want to go w/
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @AdmiralHip and
The majority of English speakers, they speak global English, not either UK or American English. And that term is definitely racist, problematic, and connected to the Uk’s many centuries of Violent global empire.
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